Croisilles British Cemetery
The 7th Division attacked Croisilles in March 1917 and took it on 2 April. It was lost on 21 March 1918 and recaptured by the 56th (London) Division on the following 28 August, after heavy fighting. Plots I and II of the cemetery, were made between April 1917 and March 1918 and the rest was formed after the Armistice, when graves were brought in from the neighbouring battlefields and from some smaller burial grounds.
The majority of the soldiers buried in the cemetery belonged to the Guards 7th and 21st Divisions. Croisilles British Cemetery currently contains 1,171 Commonwealth burials and commemorations of the First World War. 647 of the burials are unidentified but there are special memorials to 14 casualties buried among them. Other special memorials commemorate casualties buried in Hendecourt-les-Cagnicourt Communal Cemetery in 1917, whose graves were destroyed by shellfire. The cemetery also contains the graves of six Commonwealth airmen of the Second World War and 18 German war graves.
The pictures shown here were taken on 17 July 2024 using a Sony A7R IV camera body and Sony FE16-35mm GM and Laowa 10mm F2.8 Zero-D FF lenses.
The music is O magnum mysterium by Morten Lauridsen performed by Voces8.
The trench map is courtesy of the National Library of Scotland.
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